The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-10

/ ~. T. noted FOR ms industry and ~ one NJ the
hardest working OF newspaper men. He
is n good taker and during his visit
to the froublous districts OF Ire
land this summer he made some speeches
10 tho people He j. an enthusiast on the
tariff, and be believes, | think, that the mis-
sion Of his life is TO keep up protection. He
has wife who is fully ~ bright as himself,
who can make a mau's salary at newspaper
correspondence any day, and who Is at the
same time an accomplished society woman.
Porters father was well 10 do country gen
tleman. and he had somewhat the same tastes
os Porter. in that he liked good living and
lots OF H. He was not worker. however
like bis son. and the result was that when
Robert h. gan 10 reach the years OF manhood
the family exchequer had become 50 reduced
that Porter saw that he would have to make
ms own way ia the world. II was at this
time that he read the life of Gen. Grant, and
from il he decided that the country which
could turn ont such n product iropa tanners
son ought 10 give chance 10 the offspring
of an English gentleman He came 10 Amer
lea with the idea of being a farmer, drifted
into newspaper work. became an assistant on
the census comini SION. and was hnhliy APP
pointed one Of the commissioners to revise
the tariff. He Is now secretary of the Amer
lean Protective Tariff league and his new
paper will undoubtedly be run in the interest
Of protection.
Ii will also be Republican, for Porter il
Republican. and Frank Hatton would he lost
anywhere but in the Republican party. Hat
ton is a good newspaper man He Is man
of strong convictions. and be believes in push
i'm journalism lie viii not be at all back
ward in his newspaper work, and 1t VIII be
strange If this newspaper with two such
men at the head, does not succeed hatton
is also Young man lie is straight. dark,
fine looking and he has jaw which expresses
determination He is a good fellow, and he
has had some newspaper experience on The
Burliugtou Hawkeve. ~ editor Of The Ma
tional Republican and since he mas left the
postmaster generalship as editor OF HE I'M
cago Mail
Washington has been the newspaper tram
inc school for many Of the leading editors OF
the United States A Washington cor
respondent has position second only 10 that
OF the managing editor Of IA paper, and every
year managing editors are taken from here
and promoted 10 the head of the papers they
represent Joseph Pulitzer, editor Of The
View York World, was once Washington
correspondent, and Whitelaw Reid, the ed
itor Of The New York Tribune, represented
The Cincinnati Gazette here for years He
wrote letters over the signature Of Agate"
and there is now in The Commercial Gazette
oIice an old desk az which he used 10 work.
!. b. Mccullough, editor OF The St Louis
Globe-DemOcrat, was considered one Of the
brightest newspaper men at Washington dur
ing the DAYS Of Andrew Johnson, and james
Gordon Bennett wrote letters from Washing
tom before he established The Herald. News
paper work atN ashington increases in volume
every year, and more than 100 correspond
ents have now admission 20 the press gal
lery. There are, all told. / suppose, 800 men
who do newspaper work M Washington, and
the 100 correspondents above spoken of make
their entire living by it, One OF the bright
ct Of the correspondents who have been
added to the corps within the past few years
is John 5. Shriver, OF The Baltimore Ameri-
can. who is noted for his White House go--
sip He delights in giving his readers graphic